Category: Nonfiction

Emile Zola is one of the most gifted French authors. His works won’t disappoint readers who expect more than mere storytelling. Through his work,…

In 1786, acting on an impulse, Goethe takes a journey to Italy. He visits many Italian cities including Venice, Verona, Naples, Sicily, and Rome….

This is the best work I’ve read after Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own, which I found profoundly informative to amateur writers like…

The Words is one of the most interesting autobiographies I’ve read. Although it mainly covers the first ten years of the life of Jean-Paul…

This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen is a collection of short stories that states a brutally true account of horror and survival…

This essay is an in-depth discussion of Camus’s view on absurdism and how man continues his existence on the face of it. Is he…

Letters on England, a collection of letters written by Voltaire while living in exile in England, comprises Voltaire’s observations on English politics, governance, religion,…

I have had an interest in painting since my younger days. I never painted myself, nor could I draw or sketch, yet I was…